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Friday, August 30, 2013

I Know that Among My Small Following are a Few Teachers.

Do you like to teach poetry? How do you do it? What are your favorite poems to teach? Are there poems that you feel are important to teach?

I know, I know. These aren't simple questions. But they are on my mind lately.

I'm curious since I feel so strongly about the importance of literacy and critical thinking. Our poets are often, like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, the first to raise an alarm and hold a mirror up to our warts and such. (mixed metaphor alert)

All students deserve every opportunity for rich and fulfilling lives, and I believe that poetry can be an important part of that.

2 comments:

I've always thought it was important to teach poems by John Donne and Wallace Stevens, because their poems are not as easy to read on one's own as some others. I like to teach Stevens' "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" because of some of the words, like "deal" and I agree about teaching Donne's "The Sun Rising" because most students identify with the situation, once they get through the language to see what the poem is about.

My students are struggling and emergent readers these days, so I no longer get to teach poetry. I do, however use some of it to hook them on reading. Shel Silverstein is a perennial favorite a his treatment of subjects tends to captivate young students.

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